From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Return-Path: Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id S1761777AbYDQIpq (ORCPT ); Thu, 17 Apr 2008 04:45:46 -0400 Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org id S1751083AbYDQIpi (ORCPT ); Thu, 17 Apr 2008 04:45:38 -0400 Received: from 74-93-104-97-Washington.hfc.comcastbusiness.net ([74.93.104.97]:59241 "EHLO sunset.davemloft.net" rhost-flags-OK-FAIL-OK-OK) by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S1751977AbYDQIpi (ORCPT ); Thu, 17 Apr 2008 04:45:38 -0400 Date: Thu, 17 Apr 2008 01:45:34 -0700 (PDT) Message-Id: <20080417.014534.258800340.davem@davemloft.net> To: akpm@linux-foundation.org Cc: mingo@elte.hu, linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org, torvalds@linux-foundation.org, tglx@linutronix.de, hpa@zytor.com Subject: Re: [v2.6.26] what's brewing in x86.git for v2.6.26 From: David Miller In-Reply-To: <20080417014054.ea788f1f.akpm@linux-foundation.org> References: <20080417002552.5742ad65.akpm@linux-foundation.org> <20080417083000.GA4935@elte.hu> <20080417014054.ea788f1f.akpm@linux-foundation.org> X-Mailer: Mew version 5.2 on Emacs 22.1 / Mule 5.0 (SAKAKI) Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: Text/Plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Sender: linux-kernel-owner@vger.kernel.org List-ID: X-Mailing-List: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org From: Andrew Morton Date: Thu, 17 Apr 2008 01:40:54 -0700 > By keeping all this code out of -mm you haven't solved any of the > merge/integration problems which we had in 2.6.24-rcX. I think things would have been a lot easier if you had adopted basing -mm on top of linux-next from the very start. The responsiveness to problems and merge hassles has been so much superior and efficient from the linux-next folks for my networking stuff, for example. It's never been like that with -mm.